Laser tracker technology has advanced by leaps and bounds in the last 20 years. But experts say the biggest shift has actually been in thinking and how they are used.
“What we’ve seen is the change from trackers just being an inspection tool—which they have been for the last several decades—into a manufacturing tool, something that is actually driving the manufacturing process rather than just doing end-of-line quality control,” says Joel Martin, product manager for laser tracker products at Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence.